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Appomattox Courthouse

In one momentous decision, Robert E. Lee spared the United States years of divisive violence

As April 1865 neared, an exhausted Abraham Lincoln met with his two top generals, Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman, to discuss the end of the Civil War, which finally seemed to be within reach.

How the Generals Viewed the Indians

The white man’s peace at Appomattox in 1865 meant war for the Plains Indians.

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